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Wong Kar-wai

Wong Kar-wai’s birth chart

Born July 17, 1958 in Shanghai, birth time not public.

Cancer Sun · Cancer Moon · Water · Cardinal

Sun

Cancer

24° Cancer 04'

You protect. Home, memory and the people you have decided are yours sit at the centre of your life, and you read a room before anyone speaks. Your strength is care; your task is to include yourself in it.

Moon

Cancer

29° Cancer 07'

The Moon is at home here. Your feelings are tidal, strong and closely tied to the people you love, and you remember how everything felt. You are restored by home, by cooking, and by being needed.

Cast for noon; the Moon may be up to 6° off without a birth time.

Rising

Wong Kar-wai’s birth time is not on public record, so the rising sign and houses are unknown.
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Placements

Sun 24° Cancer 04'
Moon 29° Cancer 07'
Mercury 19° Leo 08'
Venus 23° Gemini 56'
Mars 27° Aries 21'
Jupiter 22° Libra 54'
Saturn 20° Sagittarius 11'
Uranus 10° Leo 50'
Neptune 2° Scorpio 00'
Pluto 0° Virgo 47'
North Node 27° Libra 03'
South Node 27° Aries 03'

Wong Kar-wai's full reading

Each planet by sign. First-draft readings in the StarMap voice, reviewed by our consulting astrologer before launch.

  1. Sun in Cancer

    24° Cancer 04'

    purpose and vitality

    They feel most alive when Wong is caring for people and places that matter to they, and purpose is tied to belonging somewhere. The tension is taking things personally when they feel unneeded. It shows up in how much better their whole day goes after they have checked in on someone they love.

  2. Moon in Cancer

    29° Cancer 07'

    needs and habits

    Their needs are tied to home, routine and the people they check in on daily. Wong is steadied by small rituals like a particular meal or a particular chair. The tension is reading other people's moods so closely that they absorb them as their own without noticing.

  3. Mercury in Leo

    19° Leo 08'

    mind and voice

    They think in confident, story-shaped terms and communicate with warmth and a bit of flair, drawing people in even when the subject is dry. The tension is being more persuasive than accurate when Wong is attached to being right. It shows up as turning a simple update into something closer to a performance.

  4. Venus in Gemini

    23° Gemini 56'

    love and values

    They love through conversation, wit and mental connection, and a partner who bores they i harder to stay with than one who challenges they. They value variety and being kept interested. The tension is treating a wandering attention as more serious than it is. It shows up as flirting through banter more naturally than through anything more direct.

  5. Mars in Aries

    27° Aries 21'

    drive and anger

    They act immediately and decisively, and their anger flares fast, hot and honest before it clears. The tension is acting before they have thought a situation all the way through. It shows up as starting the argument or the project the second the impulse arrives, with little patience for waiting.

  6. Jupiter in Libra

    22° Libra 54'

    growth and excess

    They grow through partnership and a genuine gift for bringing people together. The overreach is people-pleasing so broadly that they end up overcommitted to everyone's expectations at once. It shows up as being the connector whose introductions and events other people benefit from more than they realise.

  7. Saturn in Sagittarius

    20° Sagittarius 11'

    discipline and doubt

    They build discipline around belief and meaning, often after an early experience that made a big worldview feel naive or unsafe to hold. The doubt shows up as hedging their convictions in front of people who might challenge them. It shows up as becoming, over time, a credible voice on the very questions they once felt unsure they had any right to answer.

  8. Uranus in Leo

    10° Leo 50'

    freedom, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people who redefine self-expression and individuality, often through new forms of creativity and visibility unavailable to earlier generations. Personally, it can show up as comfort being seen in ways older relatives find unfamiliar.

  9. Neptune in Scorpio

    2° Scorpio 00'

    imagination, generational

    Shared across this generation, this placement marks people whose collective imagination is drawn to the hidden, the taboo and the transformative, often through a wider cultural fascination with secrets and endings. Personally, it can show up as being pulled toward mystery for its own sake.

  10. Pluto in Virgo

    0° Virgo 47'

    power, generational

    Shared across this generational span, this placement marks people who live through deep transformation of work, health systems and daily life itself. Personally, it can show up as intensity around control, order and what a body or a system can actually handle.

Aspects

How the planets in Wong Kar-wai's chart talk to each other, tightest first.

  1. Venus trine Jupiter

    1.0° separating

    Their affections and their sense of abundance reinforce each other, giving they a warm, easy generosity in relationships. Good fortune in love and friendship tends to find they without much forcing, more consistently than most people would consider fair.

  2. Mercury trine Saturn

    1.0° applying

    Their thinking and their discipline support each other, giving they a clear, methodical way of working through ideas. People trust their conclusions because they have usually already tested them, often more thoroughly than anyone around they realise.

  3. Sun square Jupiter

    1.2° separating

    Their ambitions can outpace what their current resources or timeline can realistically support, leading to overpromising they later have to walk back. The lesson is scaling a genuinely good instinct to a size that actually holds.

  4. Neptune sextile Pluto

    1.2° applying

    Shared by this generation, the placement marks collective imagination and transformation cooperating gently, with relatively little friction. Personally, it can show up as cultural belief shifting alongside deeper change with real ease.

  • Moon square Mars1.8°
  • Jupiter sextile Saturn2.7°
  • Moon square Neptune2.9°
  • Sun square Mars3.3°
  • Venus sextile Mars3.4°
  • Mars trine Pluto3.4°
  • Venus opposition Saturn3.8°
  • Mercury sextile Jupiter3.8°
  • Mars opposition Jupiter4.5°
  • Mars opposition Neptune4.6°
  • Mercury sextile Venus4.8°
  • Sun conjunction Moon5.0°
  • Moon square Jupiter6.2°
  • Sun square Neptune7.9°

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Birth data: Wikidata. Confidence X (date and place known, time unknown). Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

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